Here’s what’s happening around the state this week:
Rep. Karen Clark says she introduced the bill to repeal the anti-gay marriage amendment because she’s heard from legislators who have had second thoughts about their vote for the amendment last spring. [Politics in Minnesota]
Minnesotans United, the coalition opposing the amendment, has begun work in Asian communities. The group hosted a meeting at Hamline University over the weekend. [MPR]
Lori Sturdevant is predicting a nasty battle over the anti-gay marriage amendment. [Star Tribune]
Marilyn Carson Nelson of the Fortune 500 Carlson Companies argues that Minnesotans should reject the amendment because its bad for business. Nelson says she knows that because inclusivity has been good for her business. [Star Tribune]
Experts weigh in one how Michele Bachmann’s campaign disintegrated in Iowa. [Des Moines Register] Bachmann was the architect of Minnesota’s anti-gay marriage amendment. Will she return to the state to push for it’s passage?
Jennie Zeitler of Royalton wants her community to know that she supports the anti-gay marriage amendment. [Morrison County Record]
St. Paul’s Holy Trinity Church is warning its parishioners about the “militant homosexuals” who want to destroy marriage. Likely the church is engaging in such language with the blessing of Archbishop Nienstedt. [Good As You]